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? asked in Computers & InternetProgramming & Design · 1 decade ago

What language was MS Windows written in?

Update:

Thanks Danf2.

The article is straight. I found this on the bottom line.

How Mr Gates sees a relationship to a Window and C++ remains an inigma.

Perhaps the MAC OS was written in C++?

Q. Why was Microsoft Windows called "Windows"? I would also like to know what programming language Windows was written in. (Starehe Starehe, Kenya, Starehe@elci.apc.org)

A. Windows is called that because when you're running multiple programs on the screen, each of the rectangular areas containing a program is called a window. It was written primarily in C++, with some machine language mixed in. Most of the new code is written in C++.

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  • ?
    1 decade ago
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    Binary

  • Danf2
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    1 decade ago

    "It was written primarily in C++, with some machine language mixed in.

    Most of the new code is written in C++." --Bill Gates

    Source(s): http://web.archive.org/web/20050521072335/http://w...
  • Salim
    1 decade ago

    English

  • quayman0001
    1 decade ago

    It is written in mostly Assembly language, and C/C++. They might use some C# as well.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I remember reading it's written with C/C++ and C# probably with some optimizations here and there done in assembly.

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